Thomas H. Broman
Associate Professor, History of Science and Medical History & Bioethics
Chair, History of Science
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Special interests and recent research:
Science and medicine in the Enlightenment, the role of science in the public sphere, 18th-century German intellectual and cultural history.
Recent publications:
- "The Medical Sciences." In David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 4, "The Eightenth Century," ed. Roy Porter. (2003, Cambridge University Press).
Science and Civil Society, with Lynn K. Nyhart (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
- "On the Epistemology of Criticism. Science, Criticism and the German Public Sphere 1760-1800." Presented at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Symposium, "Literaturwissenschaft und Wissenschaftsforschung," Heidelberg (September, 1998).
- "The Habermasian Public Sphere and Science in the Enlightenment." History of Science 1998, 36:123 49.
The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
- "Rethinking Professionalization: Theory, Practice, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century German Medicine." The Journal of Modern History 1995, 67:835 72.